Course topics will include (not necessarily in this order):
1. Conservation Ethics and Standards—Course Introduction
2. History of Conservation in the 20th Century
3. The Cleaning Controversy: Scientific vs Artistic Conservation
4. Conservation Training, Membership Organizations, and Accreditation
5. the Murray Pease Report, and Development of the CoE
6. Other Codes and Charters, Revisions and Commentaries
7. Artist Intent, the Original State, and Treatment
8. Preventive Conservation, the Art of Doing Nothing
9. Climate Controversies, Mecklenberg and "Proofing"
10. Community Participation, Wharton and Kamehameha
11. Mistakes, "Edge Cases" And Irreconcilable Dilemmas
12. Strategies and Complex Projects (Long Range, and Strategic Planning)
13. Conservation Training, collaboration and "Soft Skills"
14. The Contemporary Theory of Conservation "dubious principles"
15. The Negotiation of Scientific and Indigenous Perspectives
16. Conservation, Politics, and Social Conflict
17. Classical and Contemporary Conservation, Intangible heritage
18. Folk, Tribal, Indigenous Cultural and Conservation Priorities
19. The V&A Museum Ethics Checklist
20. Field trips and onsite discussion.